This week, I are mostly reading....

tSubh Dearg

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

Priestess of the White - Trudi Canavan

Is that series any good Tar? I liked the Magician's Guild books of hers but heard that her other series wasn't as good.

Just finished reading Eragon by Christopher Paolini- excellent book, really enjoyed it and found it hard to put down.

and Thud - TP, which I also enjoyed, though I love the Guards series in general.

Backtoblack

(does that title say "I are reading"??)

This week I am mostly reading the same book I was reading last week so I am going to turn off this laptop before I merge into it.. and get me a few chapters read!

Backtoblack

CharLit wrote:

just read "Emergency Sex" by Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait and Andrew Thomson. Misleading title, it's an autobiographical account of the time the three authors spent working in various war zones for the UN from the early 90s till about 2000. I found it fascinating, deeply depressing and exhilarating in turn. Makes me want to give up on humanity and go and live on a mountainside by myself somewhere, but simultaneously to go and work in a war-torn country...

Tar.Aldarion

tSubh Dearg wrote:

Is that series any good Tar? I liked the Magician's Guild books of hers but heard that her other series wasn't as good.

I loved that trilogy too. I really like this one also, nearly read the whole thing in one day. I find it hard to out her books down.
It's kind of the same type of series, I likes.

BossArky

This week I read:

- George Best "Scoring at Half-time"
- Jon Krakuer "Into the Wild"

nando

I'm just over half way through The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles. I'm not sure yet if I actually like it, but I feel compelled to keep reading so I think I must. It's like very little happens but at the same time it's quite interesting.

Stargal

Jeremiah 16:1 wrote:

The Secret History by Donna Tart. Not as good as The Little Friend, as no character she creates could ever match Harriet or Harriet's grandmother in that particular book.

Are you serious? Henry is one of the best literary characters ever invented, and the book itself is a masterpiece. The Little Friend is a major disappointment in comparison.

Anyway.

Just finished 'The Year of Magical Thinking' by Joan Didion. I'd been looking forward to this for ages, but it wasn't as good as I'd hoped. The book is about how she coped in the year after the death of her husband, but it's very removed and slightly unsatisfactory; you never fully understand her relationship with her husband or the grief that she feels. Still worth a read though.

secret_squirrel

Just finished Cursor's Fury by Jim Butcher.

Anyone who likes the Harry Dresden series should pick this up - its excellent. Far superior to your usual run of the mill fantasy.

Just starting Book Of Lost Things - by John Connolly.

Chinafoot

...'The Wolves of Willoughby Chase' by Joan Aiken.

I absolutely adore this book.

Red Hand

stargal wrote:

Are you serious? Henry is one of the best literary characters ever invented, and the book itself is a masterpiece. The Little Friend is a major disappointment in comparison.

Have to disagree.:) Sure, it is a brilliant book, and perhaps The Little Friend does need some editing, but I still think that her second book is much better than Secret History.

On topic, I'm re-reading the Rubaiyet. Not bad at all.

Tar.Aldarion

Trudi Canavan - The Last of the Wilds.

John

I wanted to start reading Everything is Illuminated by J.S. Foer this week for a book club but nowhere in Maynooth has it. Damn.

Stargal

John wrote:

I wanted to start reading Everything is Illuminated by J.S. Foer this week for a book club but nowhere in Maynooth has it. Damn.

Recently read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and it was excellent

mrsdewinter

Just started reading the Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. About 15 years after I should have picked it up. Delayed adolescence. Like it so far. Planning weekend in New York later in year and enjoying the Fifties, twin-set-and-pearls vibe. Having finished Jules And Jim last night, I'm loosely aiming to read 50 books this year

adonis

javier cercas - speed of light

very good if a little depressing

Nea

Just finished For One More Day-Mitch Albom.
It was ok but preferred his other two.

Reading The Cold Moon by Jeffery Deaver at the mo, loving it but I like the Lincoln Rhyme series.

Dublin's Finest

Dipping into John Steinbeck's Winter of Our Discontent from time to time. Great writer.

TheNibbler

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. Liking it so far but is in danger of turning into an all out rant.

Blush_01

Just finished Suskind's Perfume (which was great) and On Beauty by Zadie Smith. I adored it and am at a loss as to what I should read now that will compare to the naked, almost bald real-ness of it.

Valmont

I finished 'World war Z: A Verbal history of the Zombie war' by Max Brooks. Quality stuff.

Then I finished 'the Medici' by Paul Strathern (while I'm in Florence no less:D )

And now I'm reading 'On the Road' by Jack Kerouac.

Goodness you can get so much reading done while travelling.

John

Everything is Illuminated by J.S. Foer

and

Q.I.: The Book of General Ignorance by the BBC.

The former is OK, I'm reading it for a book club, if it wasn't for that I'd probably give up. It's trying very hard to be clever and it's just not.

The latter is interesting in a totally useless way. Just what I like

redcrew

This week I've read The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend and Candide by Voltaire... next I'm going to read a play called Frozen by Bryony Lavery

I aim to read 100 books this year but then a friend pointed out that that is one every three or four days. Still I'll aim high

Valmont

I thought books were read out of enjoyment? surely the whole "read 100 books a year" defeats the purpose a little. That and you will be purposely picking short books because 4 days isnt a lot to work with!:p

adonis

casino royale ian fleming - first bond book - pretty good actually!

Aquitaine

I'm reading The accidental tourist, anne tyler. so far so good!

genie

I'm re-reading Dissolution by C.J. Sansom. It's a murder mystery set at the time of the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII and is an excellent read.

Crucifix

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.
Quite good so far, though perhaps a more modern translation could have been better.

Tar.Aldarion

Third book, part one of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series.

r3nu4l

Imperium by Robert Harris - excellent so far.

Huge fan of ancient Rome,since I visited Pompeii, loved Pompeii the book by Harris and this is far better. Excellent political thriller with good historical reference thrown in.


Just finished 'A long way from Penny Apples' by Bill Cullen. Excellent read and well worth it, despite my initial hesitance to read it (I bought the hardback version (as new) for £1 in Cambridge )

tHE vAGGABOND

Cannery Row, by stienbeck